We are hiring new PhD students! Projects can focus on any topics of relevance to pol sci or peace and conflict studies, and the positions are fully funded. Happy to answer any questions from potential applicants!
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Three years (!!) to finally release this Special Issue in the Jnl of Refugee Studies, of which I am immensely proud. We wrestle with concepts of space, bordering and activism. Worth the wait? U decide! @kimrygiel.bsky.social @eolivius.bsky.social @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jrs/issue

Are you interested in (illiberal) peacebuilding, resistance, or struggles between competing visions of peace? Read this new article written with @malinakebo.bsky.social, @npremaratna.bsky.social & Lars Waldorf 😃
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Elisabeth Olivius, Malin Åkebo and Jenny Hedström have recently published their new article "Navigating friction: women’s peacebuilding in hybrid regimes" in EJIR!

You can find the full publication here: t1p.de/rnpwo

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Last week to send your abstracts to the Swedish pol sci conference this fall - and in particular to the Politics and Gender group which I dare promise will be exciting! 😃
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Very honored to receive the EJPG 2023 Best Article Award together with @hedstrom.bsky.social and Zin Mar Phyo! In this piece we tried to theorize feminist peace, and show how the WPS agenda can be manipulated by illiberal regimes to marginalize critical voices. Thank you
@ejpgjournal.bsky.social 😍🎉

Really pleased to receive a Swedish Research Council grant with @malinakebo.bsky.social to continue our research on women's rights and women's activism in hybrid or authoritarian peacebuilding contexts. Now with a stronger focus on how states mobilize women's rights norms for their own agendas!

New policy brief with @hedstrom.bsky.social and Zin Mar Phyo! Here we summarize findings from our research on the politics and effects of int gender expertise in Myanmar. Our findings show that int gender expertise frequently shaped peacebuilding in ways that reinforced existing inequalities. How?

One of the highlights of my academic career - being cited in a Cynthia Enloe book! 😍 with @hedstrom.bsky.social! In comparison receiving a rejection from a main Swedish research funder today is totally fine! 😄 See note 74 below! And the cited, open access book here: www.niaspress.dk/book/waves-o...

New edition of "Myanmar: Politics, Economy & Society" out now OPEN ACCESS! Very timely and comprehensive, historical background as well as recent post-military coup developments. Chapter on women's rights with @hedstrom.bsky.social and Val kay Soe!
www.routledge.com/Myanmar-Poli...